Board report16 Aug 2026

Durable takes the small business site duel over Hocoos, 60 to 40

Both generate a full small business site, copy and logo included, from one prompt. The vote split says the built in CRM and invoicing layer is worth more than a cheaper sticker price.

By Nadia Brandt

The widest margin among this week's new head to head duels: Durable over Hocoos, roughly 60 percent to 40 percent.

Both tools target the same job, a service business that needs a site today, and both generate pages, copy and a logo from a single prompt. Neither is attempting a custom application, and neither pretends otherwise in its own marketing.

Where the vote actually splits

Durable's built in CRM and invoicing layer is the deciding factor in the comments. Several voters described it as the reason they never opened a second tool after publishing the site, which is a different kind of praise than design quality and, on this particular duel, a more decisive one.

Hocoos still takes a real minority of the vote, mostly from builders who wanted the site and nothing else, with no CRM to learn. A generated brand kit ships with both tools, so that is not the differentiator here.

The honest read

This is not a verdict on which is the better small business builder in the abstract, it is a verdict on this specific brief. Read the full duel for the vote count and the comment themes behind it.

Check the numbers yourself

Every figure quoted here comes from the live board. The full dataset is public under a CC-BY licence, so you can verify a claim, disagree with it, or reweight the axes and get a different answer.

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